Thursday, March 27, 2014

April - 2014

ANIME is back ! Mondays April 7, 14, 21,28th 6:00 p.m.- 7:30 p.m. We are looking for artist beginners, in-betweeners and full ahead steamers come and join in the creativity. Instructing Artist Emery Jones .

WANTED

YOUTH GROWING DETROIT: Green Thumbs-Up Garden at the Redford Branch Library has two adult volunteer leader alternate positions to work with Dr. Wright and a small groups of teens who will grow and sell produce at three city marketplaces. Looking for 4 enthusiastic motivated youth with guardian (parent) investment. Youth Growing Detroit brings together youth 11-18 to participate in a series of training, skill sharing community marketplace opportunities focused on agriculture and our food system. Four paid teen positions for tween/teen (11-18) who take the training and participate in the entire curriculum. if you are interested call for an appointment with Dr. Conja Wright participate in the total training. April-September 2014
A wonderful opportunity for kids to grow call 313 481-1821 ask for Dr. Wright.

CCS (Center for Creative Studies) Art for Middle School students

Saturdays, April 5, 12,
26, 10:30am - 1:00pm

For Middle school
students with a serious interest in art and strong family support.

This workshop helps
students prepare their personal art portfolio and encourages

them to apply to
Detroit’s quality high school art programs. Middle school students

There’s no doubt about it: you’ve made the decision to eat healthy. The only question that remains is what exactly eating healthy means. Organic, free-range, natural, local… and alkaline? Believe it or not, that pH scale you learned all about in high school should be finding its way into your diet: it’s time to talk acid or alkaline when it comes to food.

Why You Need More Alkalizing Foods

Several diets highlight the alkaline-acid discrepancy; what it boils down to is this: most people need not worry about not having enough acidity in their diet. The vast majority of foods we eat every day are acidic: meat, cheese, dairy… all of these foods and many more are metabolized by our bodies as acidic. Including important alkaline foods in your diet involves a bit more planning.

All of which begs one all-important question: why?

Before talking about how to introduce alkaline foods into your diet, you may be asking why you should even bother. Good question, with an even better answer. A highly acidic diet lends itself to decay of the body, particularly the bones and muscles. Some studies point to the naturally high-acid diet of the Eskimo as one principal factor why this group suffers from such low bone density. In Japan, bone density is, on average, much higher; the Japanese diet naturally includes a variety ofalkaline foods.

It bears mention that many proponents of alkaline-heavy diets cite other benefits to such a diet. These include but are not limited to acid reflux and high blood acidity. While an alkaline diet has been proven to help with the former, certain recent studies have deduced that blood acidity is not affected by diet on a long-term basis. Blood, being a naturally acidic substance, self-regulates, and while a highly alkaline diet can change the pH of blood for a period of time, the effects are far from permanent.

How to Add Alkaline

At this point, you may have already started making a mental list of alkaline foods… or so you think. The acidity and alkalinity of the food in question is not always linked to the makeup of the food itself. Lemon, for example, may taste highly acidic, but the way that it is broken down in the body is actually alkaline.

The following foods are alkaline when metabolized in the body. Including more of them in your diet is a great way to start.

“Not everyone wants
to be self-employed, and voluntarily leaving a job in today’s economy can sound
as crazy as burning provisions in a famine,” she said.

This is a how-to book
with a lot of useful takeaways. Palmer says the most successful side businesses have these characteristics:

● Low start-up costs.
“As side-giggers showed me over and over again, there’s no need to spend big before you start earning.”

● Fits well with your
full-time work and doesn’t pose a conflict, “which usually means they can be done on your own schedule,” she writes.

● Takes advantage of
your skill set.

● The hustle is fun.
It can’t be just about the money.

Don’t underestimate
this last point. How many side businesses have you failed at because you didn’t really like the job? Do you really want to stuff envelopes or take online
surveys?

Palmer says to ask
yourself these questions:

● Which fields are
growing?

● Which problems can
I solve?

● Can I realistically
get paid to do what I like?

So can you create
“hybrid income” for yourself? To help you see the possibility, Palmer
introduces you to hustling entrepreneurs who are cake bakers, home organizers
and video editors. She talks about her own entrepreneurial venture that she
operates on an e-commerce Web site.

Palmer walks you
through various business issues, such as figuring out what business to create, finding a place to sell your goods or services, branding, marketing and making
the time to do it all. You’ll find exercises and worksheets.

Not sure where to
start? She’s got an appendix with the top 50 side gigs. She describes the jobs best suited for certain individuals and lists the resources needed to get
started.

I also love that she
lists the entrepreneurs mentioned in the book and their side businesses and how you can reach them. Among the side-giggers is a social-media manager who has a
career blog, an instrument repairer who does voiceovers and a graphic designer
who is a classical singer. What a lovely way to expose these entrepreneurs to
more business.

One thing that drove
Palmer to write the book is that many people she talked to said their side

business helped them have peace of mind. Having the extra money and knowing you
can make a

way for yourself should you lose your main job “can feel a little
more stable even in an economy

that isn’t.”

If you missed Part 1 of this article, click on last month's blog to find it.

Bringing together some of the most innovative minds in experience design, the inaugural CCS Summit explores the future of human-technology interaction - a rapidly expanding field and the focus of a new master’s program at CCS in fall 2014.